Harvesters – Motorized harvester – Including driven air-blower unit
Patent
1998-06-01
2000-05-16
Shackelford, H.
Harvesters
Motorized harvester
Including driven air-blower unit
56 146, 56 60, 56504, 460 44, 460 98, 460100, A01D 4900
Patent
active
060620099
ABSTRACT:
A two-row cane harvester 10 simultaneously harvests two rows of sugar cane in a green tropical cane field. A pair of topper mechanisms 54 top the cane stalks while base cutters 80 base cut the cane. Base cut cane is received base first into the harvester intake. The cane is cleaned in a whole stalk condition with a cleaning mechanism 92 that includes a plurality of rotating tines 100 moving in a direction to engage and force the cane leaves toward a base of the cane stalk, thereby efficiently stripping the cane leaves. An extractor blower 106 removes the leaves from the rotating tines and the cleaned cane. A stalk cutter mechanism 120, 122 may be adjusted to cut the cleaned cane stalks into selected billet lengths. Cane is preferably fed into the cutter mechanism at a speed greater than the ground speed of the harvester moving through the field. Another blower or fan may be used to remove remaining leaves from the billets. The cleaned cane billets may be conveyed to a transport for transporting to a sugar processing mill.
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Louisiana Cane Manufacturing, Inc.
Shackelford H.
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